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Change in lifestyle key to nutrition security: Study

Change in lifestyle key to nutrition security: Study

FE Report 2018-10-20 13:04:33

Bringing change in people's lifestyle is the only way to ensure the nation's nutritional security, a recent study suggests. Despite having both availability and accessibility, nearly 76 per cent peop...

‘Higher-level brain functions play major role in losing weight’

‘Higher-level brain functions play major role in losing weight’

-- 2018-10-19 14:16:56

Scientists have revealed the neural basis for people with resolution and who managed to lose weight successfully, according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Cell Metabolism. Canadian r...

India Zika virus cases rise to 100

India Zika virus cases rise to 100

-- 2018-10-18 12:16:07

The number of Zika virus cases has reached 100 in India, with as many as 28 people being diagnosed with the infection in the past 36 hours, health officials say. "All the cases are from the western I...

Rubella infections continue to spike in Japan

Rubella infections continue to spike in Japan

-- 2018-10-17 14:50:40

The number of rubella infection cases in Japan has risen to more than 1,100 so far this year, 12 times higher than previous year, with more than 70 per cent of the cases located in Tokyo and its surro...

Yemen conflict could push millions more to brink of famine: UN

Yemen conflict could push millions more to brink of famine: UN

-- 2018-10-16 12:57:37

The number of Yemenis on the brink of famine could rise to 12 million - or two in five of the population - from around 8.5 million in coming months due to escalating war and a deepening economic crisi...

16pc adult, 18pc juvenile suffer from mental health disorders in Bangladesh

16pc adult, 18pc juvenile suffer from mental health disorders in Bangladesh

-- 2018-10-14 21:59:21

Some 16.05 per cent of Bangladesh's adult population (Aged 18 and above) are suffering from mental health disorders. However, in case of children and juvenile (aged bellow 18) this percentage more at...

Australia gives $37m for boosting youth mental health

Australia gives $37m for boosting youth mental health

-- 2018-10-14 13:20:57

Australia will spend an extra A$51.8 million ($37 million) on support to young people with mental health issues, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday. The announcement comes a week ahead of a...

Age boys start puberty 'linked to mothers'

Age boys start puberty 'linked to mothers'

-- 2018-10-13 13:51:44

The age at which boys begin puberty is linked to when their mothers started having periods, a study suggests. Mothers who started earlier than their peers, had sons who had armpit hair two and a half...

Caesarean births nearly double in 15yrs worldwide

Caesarean births nearly double in 15yrs worldwide

-- 2018-10-12 13:37:09

Rates of caesarean section births almost doubled between 2000 and 2015 – from 12 to 21 per cent worldwide - new research has found, with the life-saving surgery unavailable to many women in poor...

Child refugees of Nauru camp in danger

Child refugees of Nauru camp in danger

-- 2018-10-11 15:01:43

The mental health of refugees detained by Australia on the Pacific island of Nauru has deteriorated so badly that some children are in a “semi-comatose state”, unable to eat, drink or talk...

World Mental Health Day Wednesday

World Mental Health Day Wednesday

-- 2018-10-09 18:38:21

The World Mental Health Day will be observed in the country as elsewhere across the globe on Wednesday, aiming to raise awareness about the mental health issues and mobilising efforts in support of me...

FDA approves first self-assisted hearing aid device

FDA approves first self-assisted hearing aid device

-- 2018-10-06 14:20:01

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday allowed the marketing of a new hearing aid device that can amplify sounds for individuals 18 years or older with perceived mild to modera...

Sausages linked to breast cancer, scientists find

Sausages linked to breast cancer, scientists find

-- 2018-10-05 16:53:19

Regularly eating foods like sausages and bacon may raise the risk of breast cancer, according to researchers. A review of studies found women who ate high levels of processed meat had a 9.0 per cent...

Early warning system for heart attacks

Early warning system for heart attacks

-- 2018-10-05 14:45:45

A new method of analysing images from CT scans can predict which patients are at risk of a heart attack years before it occurs, researchers say. The technology, developed by teams at Oxford Universit...

Teens smoking, vaping, eating cannabis

Teens smoking, vaping, eating cannabis

-- 2018-10-04 13:06:36

Adolescents who try marijuana are not just smoking it. Many are also vaping or eating cannabis, a US study suggests. Almost one in three teens have smoked cannabis at least once, the survey of 3,177...

‘Nat’l Sanitation Month October-2018’ begins

‘Nat’l Sanitation Month October-2018’ begins

-- 2018-10-03 19:36:06

The 'National Sanitation Month October-2018' was inaugurated at the Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) auditorium in the capital on Wednesday, aimed at achieving hundred per cent hygienic...

Prime Bank's awareness event on World Heart Day

Prime Bank's awareness event on World Heart Day

FE Online Desk 2018-10-03 15:15:29

Prime Bank Ltd organised an awareness programme on preventive care for cardiac problems and it’s management on the occasion of World Heart Day-2018 for it’s Monarch Customers at Dhaka rece...

Cholera outbreak on rise in Yemen

Cholera outbreak on rise in Yemen

-- 2018-10-03 13:15:44

Yemen’s cholera outbreak - the worst in the world - is accelerating again, with roughly 10,000 suspected cases now reported per week, the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO) sho...

Oversupply of illicit drugs floods Mekong

Oversupply of illicit drugs floods Mekong

-- 2018-10-02 15:21:02

Production and trafficking of illicit drugs have reached unprecedented levels in Southeast Asia’s Mekong region and East Asia, the United Nations said on Tuesday, warning that oversupply increas...

Over 6,158 dengue patients admitted in hospitals this year

Over 6,158 dengue patients admitted in hospitals this year

-- 2018-10-01 18:58:32

More than 6,158 dengue patients were admitted in different hospitals across the country this year. According to Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room, most of the patients were admitted...

Three out of four Bangladeshis at risk of heart disease

Three out of four Bangladeshis at risk of heart disease

-- 2018-10-01 18:47:25

Three out of four individuals in Bangladesh have a risk of developing cardiac disease that can be prevented by simple means, says a policy forum on Monday. Among these diseases, and hypertension is t...

Nobel Medicine Prize awarded for cancer research

Nobel Medicine Prize awarded for cancer research

-- 2018-10-01 16:22:21

American James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to new approaches in harnessing the immune system to fight cancer. The Nob...

DNCC starts five-day dengue awareness road show

DNCC starts five-day dengue awareness road show

-- 2018-09-30 17:52:54

A five-day road show involving ‘Baul’ and ‘Jari’ songs began in Dhaka North City Corporation areas on Sunday to raise awareness about the prevention of two mosquito-borne disea...

193 test positive for HIV: Report

193 test positive for HIV: Report

-- 2018-09-30 11:57:17

At least 193 people have been tested 'human immunodeficiency virus' or HIV positive in the country's eight southern districts, says a report released by a local voluntary organisation. Among the 84 a...

Breast cancer deaths set to rise in UK by 2022: Study

Breast cancer deaths set to rise in UK by 2022: Study

-- 2018-09-29 18:23:15

Rising rates of breast cancer in the UK are projected to see deaths from the disease rise from 2022 due to healthcare inequalities, find a new analysis by the UK charity Breast Cancer Now published Fr...

BRF donates Tk 0.2m to DSH Thalassemia Centre

BRF donates Tk 0.2m to DSH Thalassemia Centre

-- 2018-09-29 17:12:11

Bazlur Rahman Foundation (BRF) on Saturday donated Tk 200,000 to Dhaka Shishu Hospital (DSH) Thalassemia Centre in Dhaka. BRF Chairman Khandaker Ibrahim Malek handed over a cheque for the amount to D...

Scientists use heavy metal to kill bacteria

Scientists use heavy metal to kill bacteria

-- 2018-09-29 13:37:45

American scientists reported a new antibiotic treatment with heavy metal gallium that showed signs of efficacy in a preliminary trial among patients with hard-to-treat lung infection. The study publi...

Screen use linked to children's cognition

Screen use linked to children's cognition

-- 2018-09-28 14:26:07

Limiting children's recreational screen use has been linked with improved cognition. Children aged eight to eleven who used screens for fun for less than two hours a day performed better in tests of...

China detains four for transporting infected pigs

China detains four for transporting infected pigs

-- 2018-09-27 13:55:21

Inner Mongolia in northern China has detained four people for forging documents and illegally selling and transporting pigs from a province that has been hit by African swine fever, said the region&rs...

Sudan reports Chikungunya outbreak

Sudan reports Chikungunya outbreak

-- 2018-09-26 13:48:36

More than 11,000 people in Sudan’s eastern state of Kassala have been infected over the past month by Chikungunya, a debilitating mosquito-borne viral disease, but no deaths have been reported,...